CUNY Academic Commons

• Ph.D., Composition-Rhetoric, 2022. The Graduate Center, CUNY.
• M.Phil., Composition-Rhetoric, 2018. The Graduate Center, CUNY.
• M.A., Africana Studies, 2010. The State University at Albany, SUNY.
• B.A., English, 2008. The State University at Albany, SUNY.

“A Moving Practice: How the Writing Workshop Can Mobilize Black Rhetorical Devices.” The St. John’s University Humanities Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2022, pp. 68-79.

“Dressing as Self-Help: Power, Aesthetics, and Pedagogy.” The Fabric of Cultures: Systems in the Making, edited by Eugenia Paulicelli. Queens College Art Center/City University of NewYork, 2017, pp. 62-65.

“Restorative Evaluation: A Reparative Approach to Assessing Student Work.” Visible Pedagogy, CUNY Academic Commons, 11 December 2020. Online.

• “Humanities Core Curriculum, Humanities Core Values.” 2024 MLA Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 4 – 7, 2024
• “Writing as an Invitational Practice.” Feminisms and Rhetorics 2023: A Deconference. Spelman College. Atlanta, GA. September 30 – October 3, 2023 (Virtual)
• “Studies in Writing Pedagogy.” Graduate English Organization Conference. University of Maryland, Dept. of English. College Park, MA. March 4, 2022 (Virtual)

Co-organizer, “Building Pedagogies of Solidarity with Students.” Teach at CUNY Summer Institute. The Teaching and Learning Center. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. June 8, 2022. Co-organized with Anna Zeemont. (Virtual)

Co-facilitator, “Teaching seminar.” Teach at CUNY Summer Institute, The Teaching and Learning Center. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. June 1 – 9, 2022. Co-facilitated with Agustina Checa. (Virtual)

Co-organizer, “Scaling Back: Building Flexibility in Small Steps.” Mid-Winter Institute. The Teaching and Learning Center. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. January 26, 2022. Co-organized with Atasi Das (Virtual); also implemented virtually at the Teach at CUNY Summer Institute on June 6, 2022

Invited panelist, “Teaching at CUNY as a Faculty Member of Color.” The Teaching and Learning Center. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. March 27, 2024 (Virtual)

Invited panelist, “The Composition Commons: Writing a New Idea of the University.” Friday Forum. Dept. of English. The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. March 8, 2024

Invited speaker, “Ella Baker’s Freedom Classroom: How the Rhetorics of Civil Rights Organizing Lead to Student-Centered Pedagogies.” Dept. of English. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. New York, NY. March 30, 2023

Queensborough Community College, CUNY – English Composition I

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY – College Composition I: Exploration and Authorship; College Composition II: Disciplinary Investigations

Medgar Evers College, CUNY – College English II


National Service

Co-Editor. Special Issue, Journal of Basic Writing (2022 – Present); Issue topic: “Locating Antiracist Decolonial Praxis;” co-edited with Sean Molloy, Conor Tomás Reed, and Anna Zeemont. (In progress.)

Service-Related Speaking (Institutional)

Discussant, “Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Roundtable.” Dept. of English. Queensborough Community College, CUNY. Bayside, NY. October 4, 2023 (Virtual)